I tried to opt out of letting my son's school ever post pictures of him on Facebook or other social media, as I was told was my right. Then the school called me and said that they can do that, but that they'll have to ask him to leave the room every time they take pictures, which is literally every time they do something fun. WHY Why do we feel we need to post pictures of anything on the internet, let alone kids just trying to enjoy themselves at school? I cannot express how much I despise big social media and what they've done to us as a society. Hatred of Zuckerberg should be one relatively easy thing for the right and left to coalesce around.
We had to sign a release. We did. One of our friends didn't. The end result was the school ceased to take pictures of any kids because the guy in charge of social media thought it was too much of a hassle to see who they had releases on and who they didn't - and we know for a fact that the school had releases for all but one kid. This is one dude who is too lazy to remember not to use pictures of Janie. There's a real need among the grey tribe to view all problems as systemic malice when individual incompetence adequately explains the problem. Take it to the principal and say "my kid's education is being interfered with for your social media channel." DONE. If, against all odds, that doesn't solve the problem, take it to the school board. You have an individual idiot, or a small cadre of idiots, who are allowed to function in their orbit because their idiocy is worth their utility. Raise the cost of that idiocy to those who must deal with it and their idiocy will be dealt with. This isn't rocket science.